Improved barrel for holding oil



i 1 UNITED g STATES PATENT? I i onnf A. BAS'S'ETT, on SALEM, MAssAo-nusnrtrs;

-IMPROVED BARREL FOR HOLDINTG- OIL.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 47,273, dated April 18, 1865. i

ing or enameling barrels used to contain petroleum-oil, benzine, 850., or for acids, with a composition of which sulphur is the base, in

combination with other ingredients, so that a stone'like coating or enamel is produced which is capable of resisting the action of oils, benzine, and acids, and thus preventing leakage and waste. i

It is well known that petroleum-oil, when stored in ordinary barrels, soon permeates the pores of the wood, and the oilis wasted. The compositions which have been used for this purpose-of glue, Ste-are acted upon bythe water contained in the oil, and are not wholly efficient. By this means an enamel is made which is not acted upon by water, oil, benzine, or acids. This composition is made by mixing in an iron kettle sixty parts, by weight, of sulphur, twenty parts of powdered white clay, and twenty parts of graphite or plumbago. Heat is applied and the composition is melted and thoroughly mixed together. Care should be taken not to raise the heat sufficiently to burn the sulphur. The fire should now be withdrawn and the mixture stirred. As the temperature is reduced, and just before it cools, the composition becomes nearlyas liquid as water, and while in this vstatemay be: 1 poured into a barrel, when it adheresin athin l coating to the stavesa As it immediatelygets hard, it may be used atonce.

It ,is necessary that thestaves of the j should. be perfectly dry, or the composition,

willnot adhere to it. 1

It may be desirable in cold weath tol f the inside of the barrel by a current of hotyair,

clay should not be putinto the compound:

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and wish to secure byLetters Patent, is i The herein-described compound, consisting: of the materials specified or their equivalents, i when used for lining or coating barrels or other i 1 vessels, substantially as set forth.

Witnesses:

ARIEL 000K, a J 01311 R. NICHOLS, p

or 1n any suitable way, to preventthe com: 3 n pound from becoming hard before it has covered thelwhole of the inside of the barrel. ,1

The proportions and some of the ingredients of the compound maybefchanged, provided sulphur is retained as the principal material; 1 A compound of sulphur and powdered-steatite, or soapstone, or lamp-black, or graphite, I will all of them accomplish the object more or less perfectly; but I prefer to. use the ma 1 j 'terials and proportions indicated. l 1' If the barrel is intended to contain acids, the i e JOH ,A. BAssnT'n; 

